blood

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.

n. A functionally similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.

n. The juice or sap of certain plants.

n. A vital or animating force; lifeblood.

n. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.

n. Bloodshed; murder.

n. Temperament or disposition: a person of hot blood and fiery temper.

n. Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.

n. Family relationship; kinship.

n. Descent from noble or royal lineage: a princess of the blood.

n. Recorded descent from purebred stock.

n. National or racial ancestry.

n. A dandy.

transitive v. To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.

transitive v. To subject (troops) to experience under fire: "The measure of an army is not known until it has been blooded” ( Tom Clancy).

transitive v. To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.

idiom bad blood Long-standing animosity.

idiom in cold blood Deliberately, coldly, and dispassionately.

idiom in (one's) blood So characteristic as to seem inherited or passed down by family tradition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)

n. A blood test or blood sample.

n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

v. To let blood (from); to bleed.

v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under arterial.

n. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

n. Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

n. The fleshy nature of man.

n. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

n. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

n. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

n. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

n. The juice of anything, especially if red.

transitive v. To bleed.

transitive v. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

transitive v. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

transitive v. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To let blood from; bleed by opening a vein.

To stain with blood.

Hence To give a taste of blood; inure to the sight of blood.

To heat the blood of; excite; exasperate.

To victimize; extract money from (a person); bleed.

In leather-coloring, to apply a coating of blood to, in order to obtain a good black.

n. The fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins.

n. . Blood that is shed; bloodshed; slaughter; murder.

n. The responsibility or guilt of shedding the blood of others.

n. From being popularly regarded as the fluid in which more especially the life resides, as the seat of feelings, passions, hereditary qualities, etc., the word blood has come to be used typically, or with certain associated ideas, in a number of different ways.

n. Fleshly nature; the carnal part of man, as opposed to the spiritual nature or divine life.

n. Temper of mind; natural disposition; high spirit; mettle; passion; anger: in this sense often accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood is to do it deliberately and without sudden passion. Hot or warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions.

n. A man of fire or spirit; a hot spark; a rake.

n. Persons of any specified race, nationality, or family, considered collectively.

n. Birth; extraction; parentage; breed; absolutely, high birth; good extraction: often qualified by such adjectives as good, base, etc.

n. One who inherits the blood of another; child; collectively, offspring; progeny.

n. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; lineage; kindred; family.

n. That which resembles blood; the juice of anything, especially if red: as, “the blood of grapes,” Gen. xlix. 11.

n. A disease in cattle.

n. A commercial name for red coral.

n. Offspring; progeny; child or children: as, one's own flesh and blood should be preferred to strangers.

n. To be put to death.

n.

n. In animal-breeding, and by analogy in plant-breeding, the peculiar character of an individual conceived as transmissible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Examples

Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus behalf, speaks the words This is my body and This is my blood over them.

The influence which can be exercised on these tissues is exercised through the blood which nourishes all of them alike, and which has the wonderful capacity of carrying to each of them their necessary building and rebuilding, or regenerating materials, -- _provided, of course, that these are, as they should be, present in the blood_.

These tissues are dependent directly upon the condition and contents of the blood, whose office it is to nourish them and which exhibits the wonderful property of conveying to each tissue its selective regenerative materials, _provided of course, that these elements are present at the time in the blood_.

But they reveal not the secrets of the place, which are known to but One, from whose eye no dark dells or earth-emboweled caves can hide the transgressor; and the tears, the sighs, the blood -- aye, the _blood_ -- of that solitary cavern are all known to Him, are all put down by the recording angel in the archives of heaven.

That the body (which is received and eaten,) is the _proper_ and _natural body_ (der rechte natuerliche Leib) of Christ, _which hung upon the cross; _ and the blood (which is drunk) is the _proper_ and _natural blood_ (das rechte natuerliche Blut) _which flowed from the side of Christ_. '

_ [377] Christ tried many: he was baptised out of his love, and his love determined not there; he mingled blood with water in his agony, and that determined not his love; he wept pure blood, all his blood at all his eyes, at all his pores, in his flagellation and thorns (_to the Lord our God belonged the issues of blood_), and these expressed, but these did not quench his love.

it's a cliche to say it, but the sanitized steak in plastic wrap has separated the North American imagination from what meat is, from the gruesomeness of muscle. strangely, blood, when it's cooked, loses its scary aspect; it congeals into the form of a piece of liver.

this reminds me of kosher law, which is said to have arisen as a prohibition against the popular Egyptian dish of calf cooked in its mother's milk. it's ALL cultural; I've seen Koreans, who enjoy lots of live seafood--the highest mark of freshness being a fish, filleted, whose gills are still working when it's placed on the table--make a retching face at the notion of Portuguese salted cod eye on toast. the sense of the yuck is full of contradictions instilled by one's cultural environment. I mean, are cow muscles and cow blood so very different?

I'm going to disregard yarb's comment for the sake of my half-digested breakfast. And you're probably right, madmouth, about the caption. It reminds me of a Filipino dish (the name escapes me) of pork, cooked in its own blood that's used for sauce.

Of all possible results to place at number two (down from number one last night), image search comes up with a still from a pornographic/horror film called Blood Lake. I think WeirdNet must have got it into its clutches.